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Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: the Appeal of Polyphony Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 11-2-2012 12:00 AM Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony Antony N. Gremaud The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Dr. Darren C. Marks The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Theology A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Master of Arts © Antony N. Gremaud 2012 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons Recommended Citation Gremaud, Antony N., "Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony" (2012). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 931. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/931 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ROWAN WILLIAMS AND MIKHAIL BAKHTIN: THE APPEAL OF POLYPHONY by Antony N. Gremaud Graduate Program in Theology A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada © Antony N. Gremaud 2012 THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies CERTIFICATE OF EXAMINATION Supervisor Examiners ______________________________ ______________________________ Dr. Darren C. Marks Dr. John Thorp ______________________________ Dr. Calin-Andrei Mihailescu ______________________________ Dr. Todd Townshend The thesis by Antony Nicholas Gremaud entitled: Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: the Appeal of Polyphony is accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts ______________________ _______________________________ Date Chair of the Thesis Examination Board ii Abstract This thesis explores the relationship between Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin, especially Bakhtin’s notion of polyphony. This thesis traces the presence of the polyphonic approach in Williams’ work to three main issues: the debate around the nature and future of the Anglican Communion, the debate around the place of Christianity in the increasingly secular modern West and the debate around the nature of faith presented in the works of Dostoevsky. Adopting Bakhtin’s polyphonic approach, Williams sees the need for an on-going conversation, one that argues for the equality of voices within a conversation, one that resists the impulse toward closure and one that resists the impulse toward uttering a final word in a debate. This thesis also touches on the polyphonic quality of the works of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Vern S. Poythress and John Gray. Keywords Anglican Communion, atheist fundamentalism, Bakhtin, closure, Dostoevsky, finalizability, Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Gray, polyphony, Rowan Williams, Vern Polythress iii Acknowledgments I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the professors who walked me through this program - Dr. Gary D. Badcock and Dr. Darren C. Marks. I am indebted to Dr. Badcock for, among other things, accepting me into the program and for turning my attention to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s book on Dostoevsky, and I am even more deeply indebted to Dr. Marks for the many hours he spent patiently discussing all things related to two deeply religious topics – theology and hockey. iv Table of Contents CERTIFICATE OF EXAMINATION ..........................................................................................ii Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..iii Acknowledgement…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..iv Table of Contents ................................................................................................................. v Chapter 1 ............................................................................................................................ 1 1 Introduction: Rowan Williams on Conversations 1.1 The Mingling of Literature and Theology……………………………………………………..…..8 Chapter 2 ......................................................................................................................... .13 2 Mikhail Bakhtin, Polyphony and Rowan Williams 2.1 Mikhail Bakhtin………………………………………………………………………………………………. 14 2.2 The Problem of Plurality …………………………………………………………………………………. 16 2.3 In Praise of Freedom …………………………………………………………………………………….….18 2.4 Bakhtin's Voice through other Voices ……………………………………………………………….19 2.5 The Polyphonic in Embryonic Form in Rowan Williams …………………………………….23 2.6 The Voice of the Heretic Theologian …………………………………………………………….….27 Chapter 3 .................................................................................................................. ..…. 30 3 Rowan Williams' Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction 3.1 Haunted by Ivan's Case …………………………………………………………………………………….32 3.2 The Grand Inquisitor…………………………………………………………….................................35 3.3 Stay with Christ rather than with Truth? …………………………………………………….…….41 3.4 The Kiss of Compassion …………………………………………………………………………….……..43 v Chapter 4 .......................................................................................................................... 47 4 Polyphony and Christianity: Pro and Contra 4.1 Pro: In Defence of Polyphony.……………………………………………………….……….………. 48 4.2 The Polyphonous Orchestra of Creation.………………………………………….…………….. 51 4.3 Contra: The Case against Polyphony.…………………………………………………..…………. 54 4.4 Modus Vivendi: The Secular World's Polyphony…………………………………..……….. 55 4.5 A Shadow Gospel?.………………………………………………………………………………………… 58 Chapter 5. ......................................................................................................................... 61 5 Conclusion: The Demonic as Beyond Dialogue and Change Bibliography ..................................................................................................................... 65 Curriculum Vitae ............................................................................................................... 68 vi Chapter 1 1 Introduction: Rowan Williams on Conversations In 2008, Rowan Williams’ Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction was published, and while this book might not appear be a very topical undertaking, the title indicates that it deals with the faith and fiction of a nineteenth-century Russian novelist, Williams’ book is, nonetheless, a highly occasional piece. Indeed, it deals with three topical issues. One issue, not specifically identified by Williams in his book, has to do with the Anglican Communion. In 2008, Williams’ name appeared in The Times in connection with the much-discussed and deeply-divisive issue of homosexuality in the Anglican Communion. On August the 7th of that year, the article in The Times was “Archbishop believes gay sex is good as marriage.”1 On the following day, the article was entitled “’Williams has made a split inevitable.’”2 The latter headline was a quote from Archbishop Gregory Venables; he was quoted as saying: “This [Williams’ views on gay sexual relationships] is more evidence of the unravelling of Anglicanism. Without a clearly agreed biblical foundation, all the goodwill in the world cannot stop the inevitable break-up. Unity without truth is disunity.”3 There is another cultural context into which Williams’ book should be placed – the rise of what Alister McGrath has called the “new atheism”4 and what John Gray has called “evangelical atheism.”5 In 2005, Richard Dawkins’ enormously popular The God Delusion was published; in 2006, Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation and Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell were published, and in 2007, Christopher Hitchens’ bestseller God is not Great: How Religions Poisons Everything appeared. In three years, a series of bestsellers attacking religion in general 1 Ruth Gledhill, "Archbishop believes gay sex is good as marriage." The Times [London] August 7, 2008. 2 Ruth Gledhill, “Williams has made a split inevitable.’” The Times [London] August 8, 2008. 3 Quoted in Gledhill, “Williams has made a split inevitable.” 4 Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicut McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2007). 5 John Gray, Gray’s Anatomy: Selected Writings (Anchor Canada, 2009), 292-303. 1 and Christianity in particular were published. Why, some might ask, would the Archbishop of Canterbury, at a time when Anglican Communion is, at least according to some,6 on the verge of a break-up, at a time when there is a marked attempt on the part of some intellectual heavyweights – Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, Dennett and others – to rid the world of the poisonous delusion of religion, why at this time would Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, decide to take time – and it must have taken some time for his book on Dostoevsky is a scholarly work (the notes, bibliography and index total 45 pages) – to write a book on a nineteenth century Russian novelist? On the surface, Williams’ decision to write a book on Dostoevsky at that time could be seen as akin to a Roman senator, with Alaric outside the gates of the city, taking time out to plant begonias in his garden. It is my contention that Williams is, despite the seemingly tangential nature of his chosen subject, engaging some of the big issues mentioned above. These two issues, the one around the nature
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